I recently installed Ubuntu on my DELL's D Drive (Secondary Partition) and I lost the windows vista boot which was on my C Drive. Now when I boot my system directly loads Ubuntu, which seemed to me ...

I've been messing around with a cheap PC lately and now I have some questions about GRUB; what exactly does Ubuntu do with GRUB during a new install? Several times I've modified my partitions (moved ...

I wonder if it would be possible to create a custom boot menu entry in grub under Ubuntu (11.04), that boots the system into terminal instead of the login screen.
The effect should be something like ...

So, my computer currently has
1) Dell's RECOVERY partition;
2) A Windows installation;
3) A logical partition with
3a) My Ubuntu partition, and
3b) 8 GB of swap.
I would like to take some space away ...

I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 along with Windows XP. Grub is installed properly. When the grub menu loads I get a moving message window saying my monitor is not in the optimum resolution of 1280x1024 ...

It's quite easy to change the default boot entry through etc/default/grub. However, this only allows for the first entry to be changed. I want to be able to move all the entries in any order I like. ...

Right now I have this setup:
/dev/sda1 is NTFS where I store my cross-platform accessible pictures/videos/etc.
/dev/sda2 is my Windows 7 boot partition
/dev/sdb1 is ext4 partition with Ubuntu 11.04 ...

On Ubuntu 10.4 LTS I want Grub to start the default OS after 5 Seconds. I'd like to see the output of the startup scripts.
Currently grub wait forever until I hit return and the output of the startup ...

I have successfully installed existing Ubuntu 10.10 on Windows 7 host as explained in this blog post. Everything worked.
I did a clean install of Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Then I tried to follow the same ...

When I upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04, every so often the computer will become unresponsive:
SSH server does not receive connections.
When I physically sit down in front of the computer, it's still running ...

I have to use pci=nocrs with my hardware to get my USB ports to work. But because I have to use an external USB DVD drive, I have difficulty booting without passing that parameter.
I am able to edit ...

I've just been forcibly upgraded to Grub 2, and I'm having trouble because the fonts in the GRUB menu are ugly and small. I have successfully set the screen resolution with
GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1200x32
...

As part of my attempts to protect my computer from physical hacking by my client, see enter link description here, I am struggling with Grub2, specifically with how to prevent it from showing the boot ...

Just completed a new computer build. I installed Win7 on a 2-disk RAID0 fakeraid. I then unplugged those drives and installed linux mint on a separate drive. I did it this way because if I left the ...

I recently purchased a Dell Vostro notebook with Ubuntu Netbook edition 10.04 pre-installed. I tried adding a partition and installed Windows XP but it didn't work out due to too many partitions in ...

I've installed a Linux distribution on a friend's PC. He does not know how to use Linux or even Windows very well, and I'd like for it to be as easy as possible. When I installed GRUB, it detected his ...

I have a usb drive with grub2 installed to the MBR. I'd like to add some custom entries to the boot menu but I can't figure out how to run sudo update-grub and have it affect the USB drive and not the ...

I've got a PC with certainly a hardware problem, the installed Ubuntu doesn't boot, neither does Live CDs. (Although Ubuntu is correctly installed).
(the 'normal' boot freezes after some filesystem ...

I'm running wubi on XP machine. Started out originally with 8.04, and gradually upgraded to 10.04. Recently, I was creating linux bootable USB drive, and put it in my system to see if it would work. ...

Grub2 allows for powerful scripting capabilities. if, while, function, etc all mean the language is pretty powerful (Turing complete?).
However, I cannot figure out how to pass parameters in grub2.
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